Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.70
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
cornucopia (motif) | abundance | religious and mythological subject | costume | gold | fruit | banquet hall | arch | cornice | columns | allegory | peace
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Rubens painter of Sketches (Museo del Prado, 2018-04-09 - 2018-08-05)Rubens et l'Europe (Musee du Louvre-Lens, 2013-05-22 - 2013-09-23)Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens (Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 2004-10-02 - 2005-01-30)Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens (Cincinnati Art Museum, 2005-05-24 - 2005-09-11)Rubens & Rembrandt (Yale University Art Gallery, 1998-02-14 - 1998-12-11)Crown Pictorial - Art and the British Monarchy (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-12-05 - 1991-02-17)
Publications:
Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, pp. 9, 18, 19, no. 48, fig. 10, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA)John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 30-31, fig. 4, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)British Art at Yale, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, p. 288, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy : Exhibition Labels, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, pp. 11-12, no. 30, N8219 K5 C761 1990 (YCBA)Linda Colley, Crown Pictorial : Art and the British Monarchy, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1990, pp. 28, 29, no. 30, no. 30, N8219 K5 C76 1990 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, A Selective Promenade, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, p. 288, N1 A54 + (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 192-193, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Matthew Hargraves, "Yale Center for British Art joins Art UK", ArtUK, 24 June 2019, https://artuk.org/discover/stories/yale-center-for-british-art-joins-art-ukMatthew Hargraves, Matthew Hargraves on Peter Paul Rubens's Peace Embracing Plenty, , January 20, 2012, 0 minutes, 20 seconds, http://www.youtube.com/v/dKoHvse6Ud0Friso Lammertse, Rubens: Painter of Sketches, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain, p. 135, cat. 32, ND673.R89 A4 2018 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)Gregory Martin, Rubens in London, art and diplomacy , Harvey Miller Publishers, London, 2011, pp. 112-14, fig. 53, NJ18.R82 M372 2011 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, pp. 9, 18, 19, no. 48, fig. 10, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA)John Wilmerding, Essays in honor of Paul Mellon, collector and benefactor : Essays, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC & Hanover, NH, 1986, p. 265, fig. 6, N7442.2 M455 1986 (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Selected paintings, drawings & books, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1977, p. 6, N590.2 A82 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
The Flemish-born Peter Paul Rubens was a classical scholar and diplomat, in addition to being a painter. Following a mission to London on behalf of the king of Spain in 1630, he was commissioned by Charles I to decorate the ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall Palace with a scheme celebrating the reign of Charles’s father, James I. This is a preparatory modello, or sketch, that Rubens made to guide the assistants in his busy Antwerp studio. The two female figures represent a smaller section of a larger central panel. Peace, draped in gold, moves to embrace Plenty, who is clad in pink and carrying a cornucopia, a symbol of abundance. Behind them looms an architectural caprice with a niche surrounded by four Solomonic columns. Traditionally associated with the First Temple of Jerusalem built by King Solomon, the columns are attributes of a wise and prosperous reign. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016